Season 1, Episode 5 Shake Your Groove Thing

First Aired: April 24, 2005

While Izzie's planning a party (and treating a patient with an obstructed bowel), Meredith assists in a heart operation---and does something she shouldn't. George's patient is an ex-smoker (Kathryn Joosten) with emphysema and Alex's is a young man (Brent Sexton) who says he has back pain. He's addicted to painkillers and Alex doesn't like that one bit. Hank: Jonathan Scarfe. Mr. Patterson: Barry Shabaka Henley.